clerking

Questions about clerking

What does clerking mean?

clerking means "the activity of recording business transactions".

How many syllables are in clerking?

clerking has 2 syllables and divides as cler-king under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for clerking?

Close synonyms include bookkeeping. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clerking a common word?

clerking is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.